Go see Selma!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OP here -- I should note, particularly for those going with older tweens and middle-schoolers, you might want to talk to your kids before you get there about the violence depicted in the movie. That said, it is a movie that young people will find inspiring and thought-provoking.

If teens dont know about the violence that took place back then, then we arent teaching our children everything.

You make a good point pp

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OP here -- I should note, particularly for those going with older tweens and middle-schoolers, you might want to talk to your kids before you get there about the violence depicted in the movie. That said, it is a movie that young people will find inspiring and thought-provoking.

If teens dont know about the violence that took place back then, then we arent teaching our children everything.

You make a good point pp

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Hopefully you discussed the glaring inaccuracies shown in the movie. Thankfully we can "go to the tape".

http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2014/12/what-selma-gets-wrong-113743.html

This movie is fiction not w documentary! Somewhat like the movie Lincoln except it's not even a book. How can you say it's inaccurate when it's an artists interpretation. Writers can take whatever artististic liscense desired.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Hopefully you discussed the glaring inaccuracies shown in the movie. Thankfully we can "go to the tape".

http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2014/12/what-selma-gets-wrong-113743.html

Calfiano is full of s****
To purport that the Voting Rights was a LBJ's idea is a true distortion of history and a slap in the face to the people of the movement and it's organizations(SCLC, SNCC) that put their lives on the line every day. LBJ definitely had something to do with it, but LBJ was a person of more ambition than compassion, it suited his needs and he was going to see it thru. His primary agenda was the war on poverty and he wanted to get MLK on board with it and MLK was not having it.
Geez and old coot says something and it has to be the gospel truth...read a history book for goodness sake.

Plus 100,000